@blogdiva I worked at an Italian restaurant 20 years ago and the head chef hated garlic and made me limit the amount to the very minimum I put in bruschetta. He would taste it and spit it out and make me start over again. 🤷🏻♂️
Was about to ask if he was Italian.
That's too sad.
I don't know why so many Italians do not like garlic. Those I worked with, if they cooked with it (never chopped or minced, only ever whole cloves), they'd remove it before serving up.
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I have never been given a response when I've asked why so many in one country don't eat garlic. To this day I still haven't had a response. Is it superstition?
@grb090423@poe1178@blogdiva eheh some can't take the heat, let's say. It takes courage to face the taste, so different from the plastic takeaway food, and... the social consequences.
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It may be because other cultures insulted Italians for garlic consumption and complained about the way they smelled. Americans did this when Italians started coming here in numbers.
Kind of like how bigoted Japanese people call Koreans "garlic eater."
It happened with some (too many) nasty people here in England, saying bad things about our neighbouring countries back in the 1970s... and now those same people go to those neighbouring countries for the food, the wine and the sunshine. Some have even permanently moved there. Hypocrites! 🙄🤦♀️
@blogdiva I'm one of seventeen known Italians who does not like garlic (nine of whom are in my family). There are some things I'll use it in, like home-cured pickles or amatraciana, but even then I low-ball it. Come and get me. 😎
@blogdiva I grew up in south San Jose near Gilroy, former home of a huge garlic festival in the 70s and 80s. The smell of garlic everywhere was ubiquitous and wonderful for several months of the year. Definitely a blessed thing to grow up around.
@blogdiva, and if it is roasted garlic you can eat 10 times the amount unless you are the person who showed me the clove that was in some delicious giant lima beans I had baked. She acted like I'd made a mistake and was letting me know that she had barely escaped the poisonous clove.
@mivox@blogdiva , she is a nice person, just a bit fearful of flavor and not afraid of intimating that I nearly caused her death by garlic. People are complicated.
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